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Kare

@kare635.bsky.social
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Mom, commuter cyclist, reader. Thoughts and opinions are my own. Currently reading: Histories of The Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson Education for Extinction by David Wallace Adams My storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/karem…

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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 19/11/2024
A brief thread on alt-text. Alt text is descriptive text that conveys the meaning of an image. It's designed to make visual content accessible to people with vision disabilities. When a person uses assistive technology such as a screen reader, the screen reader will read the onscreen text aloud 1/7
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Chris @kodiak.app · 16/07/2025
There are LOTS of different screen reader experiences, but some things to keep in mind: There's often no scrubber - the only control you have is to restart the reading. Ideally the user will be able to restart just the alt text, but they might have to restart the whole post. Put important things 1st
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 11/09/2025
The list of Dems voting to ban trans rights: Cuellar - Texas Davis - North Carolina Gillen - New York Golden - Maine Gonzalez, V. - Texas Gottheimer - New Jersey Gray - California Horsford - Nevada Kaptur - Ohio Lee - Nevada McClain Delaney - Maryland McDonald Rivet - Michigan Mrvan - Indiana ...🧵
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 08/09/2025
Say a landlord wants to evict their tenant for either a reason not permitted by law (like discrimination), or faster than the typical court process for eviction proceedings (which is already pretty fast). A legal loophole is letting landlords use domestic violence courts instead, 1/17
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RideSD @ridesd.org · 06/09/2025
The mayor’s office is intending to remove part of bus only lanes in Balboa Park. Let’s reach out and let him know we need MORE bus lanes, not less. www.bikesd.org/expand-the-b...
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Expand the Balboa Park Bus Only Lanes — BIKE SD
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
People oppose bike infrastructure because “not everyone can bike”, but you don’t have to bike to use it. I commonly see mobility scooters on bike infrastructure here too. It’s typically smoother and wider than the sidewalk. As long as there’s enough room for everyone, it works fine.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
It's interesting to contrast these disparate discourses of "abundance": (1) neoliberal (YIMBYism, principled growth, "supply-side progressivism") + (2) indigenous (rejecting the capitalist model of engineered scarcity; living reciprocally, in good relation, collectively stewarding plenty)
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Where Abundance Goes Next Under Trump 2.0
The 2024 Democratic National Convention was a moment of triumph for the fledgling abundance movement. While accepting the party’s nomination for president, Kamala Harris indicated her support for YIMB...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Wife: I'll buy a subscription to any publication that writes one honest story about the "masculinity crisis" that just says "Men want to be able to treat women like shit and still get laid" and just be done with it. There's no more depth to the discussion. There is no nuance.
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Kare @kare635.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
BikeSD already has a response email template set up for those who want to keep the bus lanes: www.bikesd.org/expand-the-b...
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Expand the Balboa Park Bus Only Lanes — BIKE SD
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Kare @kare635.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
BikeSD already has a response email template set up for those who want to keep the bus lanes: www.bikesd.org/expand-the-b...
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Expand the Balboa Park Bus Only Lanes — BIKE SD
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Kare @kare635.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
So he's going to charge for parking and then make transit to the park slower?????? 🤦🏼‍♀️
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Brer Marsh @brerbear.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The Balboa Park Committee is meeting tonight to hear an update on paid parking implementation but you can't tune in and hear the discussion because the city chose to not broadcast park committee meetings any longer. www.sandiego.gov/sites/defaul...
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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
“The YIMBY case for Alligator Alcatraz” YIMBY Action’s Laura Foote and California YIMBY’s Matthew Lewis have chosen to share a stage with this person. YIMBYism in California is a right-wing movement.
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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The brother of far-right extremist Nate Hochman is a speaker at the Abundance conference 👍
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
🌈 🚀 ✨ our day will come ✨ 🚀 🌈
A circle badge logo of a golden hammer and sickle seemingly soaring through the stars, leaving a rainbow in its wake, with the text: Fully automated luxury gay space communism
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derek van vliet @derek.bike · 31/08/2025
here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road
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Lucy Parsons Labs @lucyparsonslabs.com · 27/08/2025
Evanston has confirmed that it is deactivating its Flock ALPRs after many reports IL police were illegally sharing data with ICE and other federal agencies. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ILE...
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Statement: Evanston Deactivates Flock Cameras and Terminates Contract
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I don't love private insurers either, but the primary reason for the home insurance crisis in California isn't corporate greed. It's that many inhabited parts of the state have become extremely dangerous thanks to climate change.
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 29/08/2025
Blaming corporate greed for rising home insurance premiums is a very popular form of climate denialism on the political left.
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Kare @kare635.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Down Periscope is THE navy movie for engineering rates.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
As our kids go #BackToSchool, never forget that we ARE the traffic that we’re afraid of. If more kids walked, biked or rode transit to school, it would erase a massive number of car trips each day, and our kids would be safer, healthier and better at school. HT Ian Lockwood. Spread the word.
Cartoon illustrating, how traffic induces more traffic. “There is too much traffic for Billy to walk to school, so we drive him.”
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Alice ❌👑 @a-l-yang.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Trump is trying to erase these artists and scholars. Let’s amplify them, following NPR’s example in this article. apple.news/A_-0jlscvRDG...
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Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art — NPR
A page published by the White House entitled
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Zora Neale Hurtin’ 📚🔮✨ @alexaesperanzaa.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I learned my lesson young!
Smart House Movie Poster - family looking traumatized-ly up at the evil ai lady who destroyed their home… AND THEIR LIVES!!!!
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
putting aside the trans rights issues specifically (lol), I think part of what has me so frustrated with the Newsom thing is that Pritzker, Walz, and Zohran are putting on clinics for a popular, progressive politics and we’re wasting time talking about this used car salesman ass goblin.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
It’s also really important as a Black woman talking about technology that I make this part legible. I don’t misunderstand the tech. I am not ignorant of the many users who enjoy it. I am very much aware and knowledgeable about it — I am saying that it does not matter.
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Daniel @fraction.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Awful thugs in my neighborhood. Please help the family if able.
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chelsea bridge 🩸 @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
let's talk about why. newsom vetoed AB 2442, which would have made it easier for care providers to become licensed if they offer gender-affirming care. www.eqca.org/vetoes-gende...
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Governor Newsom Vetoes Bill to Improve Access to Gender-Affirming Care
Equality California and Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California are disappointed by Governor Newsom’s veto of Assembly Bill 2442 by Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur – co-sponsored legislation that ...
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Colin Parent @colinparent.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I'm on KPBS talking about a new 380-unit apartment complex planned across the street from the Palm Avenue trolley station. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBbf...
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After 6 years, San Diego approves 380-unit housing project next to Blue Line trolley
San Diego approved a new housing development across the street from a South Bay trolley station. KPBS metro reporter Andrew Bowen says more than a quarter of the homes will be affordable.
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Kare @kare635.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
This is so awesome!! We need more housing in the south bay!! And right next to the blue line is a great place to be!!
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Pedestrianized streets let kids be kids (and let parents relax a little)
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 19/08/2025
It's 2018. The LA City Council is opposing SB827 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,663 It's 2019. The LA City Council is opposing SB50 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,791 It's 2025. The LA City Council is opposing SB79 because it overrides local control. Rent is $2,625
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
the emotional toll of reading something every day and thinking "this is it. the stupidest thing i have ever read in my entire life." and then the next day reading something even stupider
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Ⓜ️𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖊 💙 🦋 @lmariev.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Ethics complaints accuse House Speaker Mike Johnson of using campaign funds to pay rent to California GOP Rep. Darrell Issa. www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/18/e...
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Ethics complaints accuse House Speaker Mike Johnson of using campaign funds to pay rent to California GOP Rep. Darrell Issa
According to the Campaign Legal Center, Johnson’s campaign committee began paying $2,500 a month to Issa this past March for a Washington, D.C., property he uses as a residence.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/08/2025
rich nimbys in charlottesville lost the political debate over zoning, leveraged the legal system to try to stop it, and are going to lose the political debate again for the simple reason that the voters of cville support zoning reform and have elected a city council that intends to see it through
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Plaintiff in city zoning case speaks out - Cville Right Now
One of the plaintiffs in the White vs. Charlottesville zoning lawsuit laid out the reasons for the action against the city.
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Anuradha Mukherji @anuradhamukherji.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Charging higher insurance rates for households with poor credit scores institutionalizes racist policies (similar to redlining) and compounds preexisting vulnerabilities.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
This oped builds off this news from last week that I want to share because that's a boss headline www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/08/m...
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Massachusetts collected $2 billion more in tax revenue than expected because of millionaires tax - The Boston Globe
Total revenue collections for fiscal year 2025 totaled approximately $43.7 billion, which is $2.9 billion, or 7.1 percent, more than the state pulled in the prior fiscal year.
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Pikachu says trans rights
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Kare @kare635.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Me and all my homies wish ill on JK Rowling.
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Kare @kare635.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I love my corner store!!! It's where we go to get drinks and snacks on a whim, we get ice and drinks for bbqs, we get change there when we need to use the laundromat next door. Definitely in the top 5 things you need in walking distance!
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
“We’ve been designing downtowns to virtually repel children, & then saying, ‘See, families don’t want to live downtown,’” @brenttoderian.bsky.social says. “We’ve been creating the perfect self-fulfilling prophecy.” I’m interviewed in this. Design urban places for kids & families. You’ll get them.
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Struggling Downtowns Are Looking to Lure New Crowds
Traditional business districts in cities like Chicago and Portland are still waiting for office workers to return. Can younger residents and families fill the gap?
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Bainbridge Island's planning commission is currently picking apart the affordable housing project the Low Income Housing Institute wants to build near the state ferry terminal, suggesting it should be: -Shorter -Have more parking -Have a more onerous design process -Have public art
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/08/2025
Indigenous activists opposed to Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine have for years been surveilled by law enforcement agencies and the company behind the mine, records show. “They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.
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“Under the Microscope”: Activists Opposing a Nevada Lithium Mine Were Surveilled for Years, Records Show
Law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, have collaborated with private security to surveil largely peaceful protesters opposed to the Thacker Pass mine, according to a ProPublica review of…
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Dr. Kakani Katija @kakanikatija.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Not just kids, but people of all ages and abilities too. At some point in our lives, we’ll be disabled (and cannot drive); it’s only a matter of when. That’s why I focus on providing safer cycling and pedestrian infrastructure in my community so that everyone can independently explore their world.
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 14/08/2025
After Gavin Newsom becomes the clapback king against Trump, he & Trump are going back to the country club & discussing their shared interest, beating up homeless people, at the lunch buffet.
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Mari- homeless. Still Indigenous. @wordglass.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Heavy trigger warnings. and this is only a tiny bit of the story A Mother’s Worst Nightmare Federal law has put thousands of women on anti-addiction medications like Suboxone into an impossible bind: Give up your treatment or risk losing your child. 1/7
a photo of Jade Dass
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Imagine our shock when we saw it was a BMW…😏 #WorldBollardAssociation
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MaryMM @marymm.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Yuba FasTrack just stolen. Details forthcoming. Please watch for it.
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Jennifer Maiko Bradshaw @amoralorealis.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Gonna unpack this a bit. There are at least two groups of left-leaning folks here that @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social is mixing up. 1)left-leaning housing policy folks like @cwhitzman.bsky.social, Alex Hemingway who want tenure neutrality because housing (and tax) policy should be equitable to renters
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing. Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter. Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵 x.com/andrewcuomo/...
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People For the American Way @peoplefor.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”
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